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Resources for coping with Windows

Escaping
OpenOfiice, an open source alternative to Microsoft Office
Samba, an open source SMB/CIFS server
Getting out of MS Access [to MySQL]
April 2001 Troubleshooting Professional Magazine: The Windows to Linux Conversion
OSFAQ.com - Operating System Frequently Asked Questions

WIN32 apps


GNU for win32
Perl for WIN32
Emacs for WIN32
Virtually Unix
Stroud's Consummate Winsock apps List

WIN32 programming


Windows Sockets Classes
CSocket Methods
File I/O Functions
Internet Samples
Minimal Windows NT service
A Class For Building An NT Service
Unofficial Guide To CLR Metadata (.NET)
Southern Storm .NET interpreter
Win32 mutexes
Roalnd Clarkson's Win32 programming page
Comm port programming example

WIN32 programming


Windows Sockets Classes
CSocket Methods
File I/O Functions
Internet Samples
Minimal Windows NT service
A Class For Building An NT Service
Unofficial Guide To CLR Metadata (.NET)
Southern Storm .NET interpreter

  • comp.os.ms-windows.*
    ...comp.os.ms-windows.programmer ...vxd ...win32
  • microsoft.public.*
  • microsoft.public.sourcesafe
  • microsoft.public.vc.language
  • microsoft.public.vc.mfc
  • microsoft.public.win32.programmer.networks
  • microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tools
  • Microsoft Corporation Web Server
    ...for Developers Only
  • Demoronizer
  • System internals

    Some fun stuff

  • Help Desk
  • Steve Ballmer monkey dance video
  • Which Bill is more annoying?
  • Herring beats NT
  • Gerald Holmes
  • Microsoft Myths Made Manifest (parody)
  • Smart Money: 10 Things Bill Gates Can Do to Get the Justice Department Off His Back
  • NY Times: Microsoft in Judge Judy's court
  • The Onion: Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeros
  • Linux programmer bails out Hotmail
  • MVP action figures!
  • Abbot and Costello Meet Windows 95
  • FNwire: Sun Clears Up MS Stance
  • Editorial cartoons
  • Brunching Shuttlecocks: Why there's no Microsoft settlement
  • Brunching Shuttlecocks: More Charges Against Microsoft
  • The Onion: Evil Genius Drops Windows 98 Into NY Water Supply
  • Reinstalling Is Futile
  • Microsoft Announces Office 10 Will Cure Cancer

    Windows

    Internet resources for Windows developers
    Virtual Shareware Library
    VxD FAQ
    NDIS FAQ

    Windows 95

  • comp.os.ms-windows.win95
  • comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
  • comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup


    Microsoft support
    Annoyances
    ...Fine tuning
    ...Unsupported devices
    ...Use long filenames in DOS box
    GNU for win32
    VxD FAQ
    SysInternals for win95:
    ...Filemon ...VxDmon ...Regmon

    Windows NT


    Windows-nt.com
    NTique: technical reports
    ...    NTFS streams (ADS)
    ...File and directory ownership
    ftp.sunet.se/pub/NT/mirror-cica
    gnu for NT
    NT FAQs
    SysInternals NT:
    ...Inside Native API ...Inside Native Applications